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Obstruction of Justice: How 47 DOJ Leaks and 9 Complicit Newsrooms Targeted the Letitia James Prosecution

December 1, 2025 / 58 minutes of reading

The Laundering Pipeline: DOJ Insiders → Reporters → Headlines → Defense Motions → Amicus Briefs → Congressional Letters → Federal Judge’s Ruling Prologue: The Real Misconduct Forty-seven federal crimes. Nine newsrooms. One coordinated operation to obstruct justice. They screamed “prosecutorial misconduct” until a federal judge cited it as fact. But who really obstructed justice in the Letitia James case? Not […]

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Abbe Lowell, ABC News, Alan Feuer, Alexander Mallin, Andrew Goudsward, Anna Bower, Carol Leonnig, CBS News, Charles Schumer, CNN, Doanld Trump, Donald Trump, Ed Martin, Elizabeth Yusi, Eric Trump, Erik Siebert, Fallon Gallagher, Garrett Haake, Glenn Thrush, Hakeem Jeffries, Hannah Rabinowitz, Jacob Rosen, Jeff Mason, Jeremy Roebuck, Joel Gilbert, Jonah E. Bromwich, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, Judge Jamar K. Walker, Kara Scannell, Katherine Faulders, Kelly O'Donnell, Ken Dilanian, Kristen Holmes, Kristin Bird, Kwame Raoul, Lawfare, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, Luc Cohen, Luke Barr, Maggie Haberman, Melissa Quinn, Molly Roberts, MSNBC, Nakia Thompson, NBC News, New York Times, Olivia Rubin, Pamela Bondi, Perry Stein, Peter Charalambous, Pierre Thomas, Rachel Siegel, Reuters, Robert Garcia, Salvador Rizzo, Sarah N. Lynch, Scott MacFarlane, Steven Portnoy, Todd Blanche, Vaughn Hillyard, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, William K. Rashbaum, William PulteCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Judge Currie Dismissed the Indictment—But Not Because the Evidence Was Weak

November 24, 2025 / 12 minutes of reading

Abbe Lowell filed 50 pages attacking “fringe bloggers” and alleging vindictive prosecution. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed on the Appointments Clause instead—and the dismissal is without prejudice. The evidence remains. DOJ can re-indict tomorrow. The Dismissal That Wasn’t a Victory On November 24, 2025, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed the federal indictment against Letitia James. The case is assigned to

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Abbe Lowell, Donald Trump, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, Judge Jamar K. Walker, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, William J. PulteCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

When The Wall Street Journal Tries to Make Letitia James’ Public Records Disappear

November 11, 2025 / 9 minutes of reading

A forensic accountant’s guide to media misdirection The Clever Little Trick The Wall Street Journal’s Gina Heeb, Brian Schwartz, and C. Ryan Barber just ran 800 words about “improper access” at Fannie Mae without mentioning the New York State Financial Disclosure Statements that started this investigation. Not once. Those statements—showing phantom mortgages and mathematical impossibilities—are posted on a public website.

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Abbe Lowell, Brian Schwartz, C. Ryan Barber, Gina Heeb, Joel Gilbert, Letitia James, Wall Street Journal, William J. PulteCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Andrew Torrez & Liz Dye’s LegalEagle Analysis of Letitia James: Confused Two Mortgages in Two States”

November 5, 2025 / 15 minutes of reading

How 330,000 Views Bought a Defense That Confused Two States, Missed the Indictment’s Most Damaging Evidence, and Accidentally Proved the Crime Attorney Andrew Torrez and legal commentator Liz Dye published a Substack article and created a 21-minute video on LegalEagle’s channel defending Letitia James from federal fraud charges. 330,000 people watched them argue the case is weak, politically motivated, and

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Andrew Torrez, Elizabeth Dye, LegalEagle, Letitia James, Liz Dye, New York TimesCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

How POLITICO’s Defense of Letitia James Accidentally Proved the Case Against Her

October 30, 2025 / 17 minutes of reading

The One Year POLITICO Forgot to Check Three words in Letitia James’s mortgage contract could doom the fraud case against her, according to POLITICO. Three legal experts agreed: the phrase “including short-term rentals” meant James was permitted to rent the Norfolk property to her grandniece Thompson. The indictment is doomed. There was just one problem. Nobody checked what happened during

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Adam Levitin, Benjamin Klubes, Eric Forster, Letitia James, PoliticoCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

When Legal Experts Get the Law Wrong: A Forensic Deconstruction of Lawfare’s Defense of Letitia James

October 13, 2025 / 14 minutes of reading

When You Can’t Refute the Evidence, Attack the Messenger: Lawfare’s Failed Defense of Letitia James THE TELL: WHEN LEGAL EXPERTS RESORT TO CHARACTER ASSASSINATION One day after New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on federal bank fraud charges, Lawfare—a publication that bills itself as providing rigorous legal analysis—published their take on the case. They called it “dangerously weak.”

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Lawfare, Letitia James, Molly RobertsCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

The NY Times Created an Unsolvable Trap: How Media Defense Proved Letitia James’s Fraud

October 12, 2025 / 12 minutes of reading

A Real-Time Investigation as the Media Defense Creates an Unsolvable Trap HOW IT STARTED: THE MATHEMATICAL IMPOSSIBILITY In February 2025, I was reading New York Attorney General Letitia James’s financial disclosure forms—the kind of work forensic accountants do that most people find incredibly boring. That’s when I found it. 3121 Peronne Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia James listed this property with a

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Jonah E. Bromwich, Kate Kelly, Letitia James, New York Times, Stefanos ChenCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

The Leak Before the Briefing: An Investigation into DOJ Obstruction in the Letitia James Case

October 8, 2025 / 14 minutes of reading

Two DOJ employees disclosed an internal “no probable cause” finding before their supervisor could brief the U.S. Attorney—raising potential violations of DOJ policy and obstruction concerns. WHAT WE FOUND • Two DOJ employees in Norfolk, Virginia leaked their supervisor Elizabeth Yusi’s internal prosecutorial determination to MSNBC • The leak revealed Yusi’s “no probable cause” conclusion about charging New York Attorney

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Carol Leonnig, Elizabeth Yusi, Ken Dilanian, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, MSNBCCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

The Anatomy of a Cover-Up: How MSNBC and Lawfare Whitewash Letitia James’s 20-Year Mortgage Fraud Pattern

October 6, 2025 / 24 minutes of reading

A Line-by-Line Forensic Examination of Media Coordination Within 24 hours, two major media outlets published articles defending New York Attorney General Letitia James against federal mortgage fraud allegations. Lawfare published yesterday a 2,000-word article by Molly Roberts claiming James was merely “helping her niece buy a starter home.” MSNBC reported today that federal prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi sees “no probable cause”

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Carol Leonnig, Donald Trump, Ken Dilanian, Lawfare, Letitia James, Molly Roberts, MSNBC, William J. PulteCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Federal Prosecutors Have Everything They Need to Convict Letitia James – So Why Won’t Erik Siebert Act? The Evidence ABC News Won’t Report

September 19, 2025 / 14 minutes of reading

ABC News reported yesterday that U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert may be fired after declining to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud. According to their sources, despite a five-month investigation that found evidence, Siebert chose not to bring charges. Whether or not that reporting proves accurate, the evidence itself is overwhelming and deserves to be examined on

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ABC News, Donald Trump, Erik Siebert, Joel Gilbert, Letitia JamesCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook